"As long as you make me the minister, I'll go into the office to carry out the public works that serve this country and it won't be the left, some judge or some left-wing journalist who will scare me."
Thus the leader of the League Matteo Salvini from the stage in Cagliari for Paolo Truzzu, regarding the opening by the Rome Prosecutor's Office of a file on the Bridge over the Strait of Messina.
The deputy prime minister also spoke about his trial in Palermo.
"I think I am one of the few ministers not only in Italy but in the EU who every month goes to the dock accused of kidnapping because I blocked illegal landings because it was my duty, not my pleasure - he underlined -. I would be proud to go to jail for defending the borders of my country but first I will come to kick the Nigerian mafia in the butt, there is no place in Sardinia for the Nigerian mafia, if you want to sell drugs go to your country not here to ruin the lives of our kids" .
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